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The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison
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Region

Diaspora

USA

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

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Literary Criticism

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Morrison's final Harvard Norton Lectures, examining how literature constructs the 'Other' — how we narrativize race, how foreignness is produced, and how literature can counter othering.

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Morrison's last major critical work; a summation of her thinking on race, literature, and dehumanization

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Morrison's final Harvard Norton Lectures, examining how literature constructs the 'Other' — how we narrativize race, how foreignness is produced, and how literature can counter othering. Morrison's last major critical work; a summation of her thinking on race, literature, and dehumanization

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